Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:45:24 +0100 | From | Maxime Ripard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/8] ARM: sun8i: a33: Mali improvements |
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Hi,
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 01:43:06PM +0100, Tobias Jakobi wrote: > I was wondering about the following. Wasn't there some strict > requirement about code going upstream, which also included that there > was a full open-source driver stack for it? > > I don't see how this is the case for Mali, neither in the kernel, nor in > userspace. I'm aware that the Mali kernel driver is open-source. But it > is not upstream, maintained out of tree, and won't land upstream in its > current form (no resemblence to a DRM driver at all). And let's not talk > about the userspace part. > > So, why should this be here?
The device tree is a representation of the hardware itself. The state of the driver support doesn't change the hardware you're running on, just like your BIOS/UEFI on x86 won't change the device it reports to Linux based on whether it has a driver for it.
So yes, unfortunately, we don't have a driver upstream at the moment. But that doesn't prevent us from describing the hardware accurately.
Maxime
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